Jane's Information Group (often referred to as Jane's) is a publishing company specializing in transportation and military topics, which was founded by Fred T. Jane in 1898. Jane began by sketching ships as an enthusiast, and this gradually developed into an encyclopedic knowledge, culminating in the publishing of All the World's Fighting Ships. The company Jane founded gradually branched out into other arenas of military expertise. The books and trade magazines published by Jane's are often considered the de facto public source of information on warfare and transportation systems.Occurrences in fiction:

In Full Metal Panic!, Sousuke and Shinji drool over the latest Jane's guides to Arm Slaves.

It apparently still exists in the Honor Harrington series 2,000 years later, as the diagrams of weaponry and ships in the more recent novels are labeled as being from Jane's.

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